Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approximately 11:50 Hazelwood turned over control of the vessel to Third Mate Cousins. Second Mate Lloyd LeCain, who was exhausted and asleep, was supposed to relieve Cousins, but the third mate had told him to take his time. In any case, Hazelwood ordered Cousins to make a right turn back into the outbound lanes when the vessel reached a navigational point near Busby Island, three miles north of Bligh Reef. The captain then returned to his cabin, just 15 ft. and one stairway from the bridge, reportedly to complete his paperwork...
...public comment on the accident except for a terse statement that was released by his lawyers. "I feel terrible about the effects of the spill," it reads, "but I'm just an ordinary fellow caught up in an extraordinary situation -- a situation which I had little control over." In fact, Hazelwood is no ordinary fellow, and one could argue that he should have exercised much more control over many aspects of his life. But those are not reasons to rush to judgment about the events that led to the fiasco in Prince William Sound...
...that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders 62% of the shares of the combined company. In Paramount's view, that situation amounted to a transfer of corporate control...
Time disagreed on the ground that Warner shareholders would not be voting as a controlling group in the corporation. Allen concurred: "I am entirely persuaded of the soundness of the view that it is irrelevant for purposes of such determination that 62% of Time-Warner stock would have been held by former Warner shareholders." In fact, he added, "neither corporation could be said to be acquiring the other. Control of both remained in a large, fluid, changeable and changing market...
...lungs. You can't breathe with just one lung and not with the other. We must avail ourselves of rights and duties in equal measure. And if this is not established by the law, if the law does not oblige us to do that, then we have to control ourselves. When Western society was established, it was based on the idea that each individual limited his own behavior. Everyone understood what he could do and what he could not do. The law itself did not restrain people. Since then, the only thing we have been developing is rights, rights, rights...